joined us from london by jim brown of the stop the will coalition here coming on the program good to see you today jim obviously there's been a fresh surge in violence in iraq over the past month or so we've seen a thousand people being killed in various bomb attacks. what is the security situation now. it. rises and falls but the level of violence has never. gone back to what it was ten years ago after the war and talking about it's never return to that there's been terrible periods of around two thousand and six and against that things are much better than otherwise the level of violence is constant just peaks and troughs now with the latest spate of violence we're seeing a twenty six people killed here ultimately protesters rallying ahead of the results from local elections having a bit of a run in with the police as well why are people protesting the elections without even knowing the results yet. well this installation of what you could call a ministration in baghdad it. has clearly marginalize the. large part of the sunni population it's not as simple as that because for exampl